The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] similar papers or TV programmes – none of which are enhanced by straying off the reservation. Gary Webb and his stories about the CIA, the Contras and cocaine – the dark alliance as he called it – in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996, illustrated what can happen when you leave the reservation. […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] similar papers or TV programmes – none of which are enhanced by straying off the reservation. Gary Webb and his stories about the CIA, the Contras and cocaine – the dark alliance as he called it – in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996, illustrated what can happen when you leave the reservation. […]

Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 by Kathryn S. Olmsted

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[PDF file]: […] former CIA officer John 1 Real Enemies: Iran-Contra is sketched in and she flunks the central issue of the CIA’s role in facilitating the wholesale importation of cocaine. She notes that CIA officers (she calls them ‘agents’, often a sign of someone not familiar with the territory) ‘turned a blind eye’ to the import […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] opposed the Vietnam War.2 That Clinton was corrupt. The Whitewater scandal: never proven, despite 50 million dollars spent by the Republicans investigating it. That Clinton allowed the cocaine trade with South America to use airports in Arkansas while he was governor of the state. This is unproven; but if he was doing it he […]

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[…] opposed the Vietnam War.2 That Clinton was corrupt. The Whitewater scandal: never proven, despite 50 million dollars spent by the Republicans investigating it. That Clinton allowed the cocaine trade with South America to use airports in Arkansas while he was governor of the state. This is unproven; but if he was doing it he […]

You get the report you pay for

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[PDF file]: […] Oxford economist Douglas McWilliams in 1992. McWilliams is Deputy Chairman, having previously been Chairman – he was effectively demoted in 2014 after he was videoed taking crack cocaine and was accused of assaulting a prostitute – but not charged for lack of evidence. ( or ) His father, Sir Francis, a former Lord Mayor […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] the Vietnam War.5 3 That Clinton was corrupt. The Whitewater scandal: never proven, despite 50 million dollars spent by the Republicans investigating it. That Clinton allowed the cocaine trade with South America to use airports in Arkansas while he was governor of the state. This is unproven; but if he was doing it he […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of a recent FOIA disclosure from the Agency. The Agency’s internal history of Gary Webb’s infamous 1996 ‘Dark Alliance’ story that exposed CIA complicity in the Contras’ cocaine smuggling shenanigans was entitled ‘Managing a Nightmare’ – but appears to suggest that CIA did no management at all.15 The CIA’s historian refers to the way […]

View from Bridge

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[…] to the heart of the problem. Extraordinary things happened under the nose of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, his journalistic alma mater. The state was a central conduit of cocaine trafficking into the US by the Medellin Cartel in the 1980s via the Mena airstrip, when Bill Clinton was governor and controlled the state police. But […]

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